A Premonition from the Rubiayat
The idea that the whole world is being “shattered to bits” and remade “better” may seem fairly close at hand these days. But if the means of actually engineering such a feat is very...
writing and translation
The idea that the whole world is being “shattered to bits” and remade “better” may seem fairly close at hand these days. But if the means of actually engineering such a feat is very...
A few weeks ago, I set out to learn something about volvelles, a legacy of the medieval period consisting of moveable paper or card circles that rotate to expose or conceal specific information. It...
I have a new enthusiasm for volvelles (and yet another suspicion that I would have made a happy medievalist). A volvelle is a paper thing made of moveable layers, or more exactly, several circular...
With apologies to those writers among us who have been familiar with the label and the conviction for a long time now, I’m new. The immediate source of both words and image is an...
It could be a poem. Yesterday a friend sent me a short text and a question about whether “my” writer had written it. He was asking about a writer I admire a lot —...